Vacuum Microelectronics
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: September 21, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780471322443
First sentence: When semiconductor transistors were invented by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley in the 1950s [1], and integrated circuits were subsequently developed in the 1960s [2,3], people generally thought that the time of using vacuum tubes was over.